Quotes About Reality

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.